First Lady Jill Biden headlined a fundraiser at the home of Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman on Friday, when she called out the “extremists” among Republican lawmakers who refuse to support broadly popular issues.
According to a pool report, Biden said that even though Americans say that they want corporations to pay their fair share in taxes and invest in clean energy, “not a single Republican voted for any of that.”
She was referring to the Inflation Reduction Act, the climate and health bill that passed Congress with no Republican votes.
“These aren’t controversial issues, for heaven’s sakes,” she said. “They aren’t partisan, and that’s why the extremists refuse to support them. They’re putting political ploys, you know, play before the people that they represent, and they’re letting down all Americans, including millions of Republicans, really.”
The lunch event in Hancock Park was for the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund,...
According to a pool report, Biden said that even though Americans say that they want corporations to pay their fair share in taxes and invest in clean energy, “not a single Republican voted for any of that.”
She was referring to the Inflation Reduction Act, the climate and health bill that passed Congress with no Republican votes.
“These aren’t controversial issues, for heaven’s sakes,” she said. “They aren’t partisan, and that’s why the extremists refuse to support them. They’re putting political ploys, you know, play before the people that they represent, and they’re letting down all Americans, including millions of Republicans, really.”
The lunch event in Hancock Park was for the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: First Lady Jill Biden will visit Los Angeles on Friday with an itinerary that includes a fundraiser hosted by writer-producer and Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman.
Per an invite, the Hancock Park lunch reception is for the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, which is raising money for the Democratic National Committee and state parties.
“With less than 65 days until Election Day, all support is critical to ensure Democrats across the country have the resources they need to make that final push to November,” the invite reads.
Tickets start at 5,000 per person, with those who write or raise 25,000 also designated as hosts.
After the event, the first lady will then visit Homeboy Bakery and Homegirl Cafe in Los Angeles. Founded by by Father Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries provides on-the-job training and rehabilitation services to former gang members and those previously incarcerated.
The first lady visited Los Angeles in June with her husband,...
Per an invite, the Hancock Park lunch reception is for the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, which is raising money for the Democratic National Committee and state parties.
“With less than 65 days until Election Day, all support is critical to ensure Democrats across the country have the resources they need to make that final push to November,” the invite reads.
Tickets start at 5,000 per person, with those who write or raise 25,000 also designated as hosts.
After the event, the first lady will then visit Homeboy Bakery and Homegirl Cafe in Los Angeles. Founded by by Father Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries provides on-the-job training and rehabilitation services to former gang members and those previously incarcerated.
The first lady visited Los Angeles in June with her husband,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: FX’s Mayans M.C. is patching in Frankie Loyal, Joseph Lucero, and Vincent Vargas as series regulars for season 4 of the biker drama slated to return in early 2022.
The trio took on larger roles in season 3 which saw their characters Hank Loza, Neron “Creeper” Vargas, and Gilly Lopez, respectively, flourish and develop into fully rounded characters with storylines fans embraced fully. Loyal, Lucero, and Vargas have been a part of the series throughout its three-season run.
Mayans M.C., a spin-off series of the network’s hit Sons of Anarchy, follows a motley crew of Latino men who found a family in the motorcycle club charter Santo Padre on the California and Mexico border. While the story is about the M.C., it also features powerful female characters that are bold and powerful in their own right.
The character of E.Z. Reyes (Jd Pardo) is at the center...
The trio took on larger roles in season 3 which saw their characters Hank Loza, Neron “Creeper” Vargas, and Gilly Lopez, respectively, flourish and develop into fully rounded characters with storylines fans embraced fully. Loyal, Lucero, and Vargas have been a part of the series throughout its three-season run.
Mayans M.C., a spin-off series of the network’s hit Sons of Anarchy, follows a motley crew of Latino men who found a family in the motorcycle club charter Santo Padre on the California and Mexico border. While the story is about the M.C., it also features powerful female characters that are bold and powerful in their own right.
The character of E.Z. Reyes (Jd Pardo) is at the center...
- 9/23/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
After launching food trucks, restaurants, and social justice efforts, chef Roy Choi is about to premiere a six-part series, “Broken Bread,” that looks at the ways food can be an agent of change. The series debuts May 15 on PBS channel Kcet in Southern California and will stream on Tastemade TV’s streaming platform.
In the series co-produced by Kcet and Tastemade, Choi, who kicked off the food truck trend with his Kogi BBQ truck and went on to found restaurants like Chego, A-Frame, and Pot, talks to people working to create positive change.
“Hopefully through the show you’ll meet a lot of people who are out there every day trying to make a difference without any investors or big machine behind them, waking up and loading their car and putting love into the universe,” Choi says.
Why do a show on food justice instead of cooking or travel? “They’re my kindred spirits,...
In the series co-produced by Kcet and Tastemade, Choi, who kicked off the food truck trend with his Kogi BBQ truck and went on to found restaurants like Chego, A-Frame, and Pot, talks to people working to create positive change.
“Hopefully through the show you’ll meet a lot of people who are out there every day trying to make a difference without any investors or big machine behind them, waking up and loading their car and putting love into the universe,” Choi says.
Why do a show on food justice instead of cooking or travel? “They’re my kindred spirits,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
It seems the feeling is mutual, Sarah Silverman. Hulu has renewed the comic's I Love You, America TV show for a second season. I Love You, America, season two, premieres on Hulu on Thursday, September 6, 2018. The renewal order is for 11 episodes. A Hulu variety and talk show, I Love You, America features Silverman on a quest to talk to and connect with Americans from a variety of backgrounds, who hold a variety of stances on issues of the day. There's no word yet on Silverman's guest stars for the second season, but guests in season one included: Megan Phelps-Roper, DeRay Mckesson, Mary Gauthier, Greg Boyle, Christian Picciolini, Susan Silverman, Randy Bryce, Patton Oswalt, and Roxanne Gay. Read More…...
- 4/16/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Photographer Steven Burton is trying to change the way people view former gang members by showing what they would look like without their tattoos.
Burton, 44, was inspired to launch his “Skin Deep” photo project after seeing the documentary G-Dog about the work of Father Greg Boyle, who founded Homeboy Industries to help former gang members reintegrate into their communities.
“The concept came to me when I watched the homeboys going through the tattoo removal process,” the NYC and Miami-based photographer tells People. “The idea was to digitally remove the tattoos, present the before-and-after photos to the subjects, and see how they would react.
Burton, 44, was inspired to launch his “Skin Deep” photo project after seeing the documentary G-Dog about the work of Father Greg Boyle, who founded Homeboy Industries to help former gang members reintegrate into their communities.
“The concept came to me when I watched the homeboys going through the tattoo removal process,” the NYC and Miami-based photographer tells People. “The idea was to digitally remove the tattoos, present the before-and-after photos to the subjects, and see how they would react.
- 10/27/2016
- by gabrielleolya1
- PEOPLE.com
Whether you want to immerse yourself in the world of birds, bees, baseball or backup singers, Netflix has a documentary for you. Missed "Man on Wire"? It's on there.
Here are films that changed the world, righted wrongs, pinpointed a moment in history, or simply shone a light on a previously unknown subset of society. (Availability subject to change. Films are unrated, except as noted.)
1. "20 Feet from Stardom" (2013) PG-13
This Oscar-winning doc shines a spotlight on the relatively unknown backup singers behind such superstars as Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Mick Jagger, and Stevie Wonder.
2. "The Act of Killing" (2012)
The director invited killers -- men who took part in the horrific purge that left more than 500,000 dead in Indonesia in the 1960s -- to reenact their crimes on film, resulting in a bizarre look inside the mind of men capable of mass murder.
3. "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" (2014)
Two filmmakers pay homage to their grandfather,...
Here are films that changed the world, righted wrongs, pinpointed a moment in history, or simply shone a light on a previously unknown subset of society. (Availability subject to change. Films are unrated, except as noted.)
1. "20 Feet from Stardom" (2013) PG-13
This Oscar-winning doc shines a spotlight on the relatively unknown backup singers behind such superstars as Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Mick Jagger, and Stevie Wonder.
2. "The Act of Killing" (2012)
The director invited killers -- men who took part in the horrific purge that left more than 500,000 dead in Indonesia in the 1960s -- to reenact their crimes on film, resulting in a bizarre look inside the mind of men capable of mass murder.
3. "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" (2014)
Two filmmakers pay homage to their grandfather,...
- 12/12/2014
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Father Greg Boyle, a white Jesuit priest, is affectionately known as 'G-Dog' by the homies he has come to know during the 25 years he has spent in East L.A. He founded 'Homeboy Industries', an organization that serves former gang members and convicts with a continuum of services such as job training, tattoo removal, counseling, legal services, and substance abuse classes to ensure that the ex-bangers don’t return to their high-risk former lives. Homeboy Industries also offers job placement in its Homeboy businesses which includes cafes, catering, and retail stores to learn skills they can take with them to start their careers and new lives.
In G-Dog, a documentary directed by Academy Award winner Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision), we follow Boyle during a tumultuous year for Homeboy Industries. In 2010, the organization faced adversity in the form of crippling financial difficulties and two murders that served as a reminder that the streets are never too far away. Father Boyle's idea that, “nothing stops a bullet like a job” suddenly seemed like just that: an idea. Despite these arduous times, a sense of unconditional love permeates the air between everyone that steps foot into Homeboy Industries and a sense of community rather than self is paramount to these individuals. A loyalty that perhaps lingers in their DNA from their days of gang activity. Laced with humor and sweetness that betray the neighborhoods these men and women come from, G-Dog is a heartfelt, feel good movie about the difference one man has made to thousands just because he made an effort to try.
Out now at Cinema Village, NYC, 'G-Dog' is part of Docudrama, a slate of seven films that includes newly acquired titles fresh off the festival circuit.
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on Twitter and Facebook.
In G-Dog, a documentary directed by Academy Award winner Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision), we follow Boyle during a tumultuous year for Homeboy Industries. In 2010, the organization faced adversity in the form of crippling financial difficulties and two murders that served as a reminder that the streets are never too far away. Father Boyle's idea that, “nothing stops a bullet like a job” suddenly seemed like just that: an idea. Despite these arduous times, a sense of unconditional love permeates the air between everyone that steps foot into Homeboy Industries and a sense of community rather than self is paramount to these individuals. A loyalty that perhaps lingers in their DNA from their days of gang activity. Laced with humor and sweetness that betray the neighborhoods these men and women come from, G-Dog is a heartfelt, feel good movie about the difference one man has made to thousands just because he made an effort to try.
Out now at Cinema Village, NYC, 'G-Dog' is part of Docudrama, a slate of seven films that includes newly acquired titles fresh off the festival circuit.
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on Twitter and Facebook.
- 4/24/2013
- by Juan Caceres
- Sydney's Buzz
Freida Lee Mock’s G-Dog belongs to a long line of feel-good documentaries that win audience awards at film festivals and make you feel like a jerk for not liking them. (See also Being Elmo, Searching for Sugar Man, and the upcoming Twenty Feet from Stardom.) This particular spirit-raiser is about Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who started the gang-intervention program Homeboy Industries in 1988 and is, by all accounts, something of a saint. That the documentary taking its title from Boyle’s affectionate nickname often verges on hagiography should thus come as little surprise, nor should Mock’s tendency to maintain a breezy mood even when touching on such thorny subject matter as gang life and recidivism. Composed largely of testimonials from me...
- 4/24/2013
- Village Voice
A million miles away from the romance of Twilight, director Chris Weitz reveals how his own family inspired his new film about illegal immigrants
I was sitting in a square in Montepulciano, a hillside town in Tuscany. It had a pristine, red-brick-tiled, symmetrical main square that offered a lovely setting for my heroine, Bella, to run to her vampire swain, Edward, through a crowd of red-robed celebrants. But the set of The Twilight Saga: New Moon was perhaps the least likely place to get the go-ahead on A Better Life, a story about an illegal immigrant and his son in East Los Angeles. But that's where Patrick Wachsberger, co-chairman of Summit and guardian of the Twilight franchise coffers, told me he wanted to make it. I think I said something like: "Are you sure, patron?" And, whether it was the wine, the sun, or Montelpulciano, he nodded yes.
It would...
I was sitting in a square in Montepulciano, a hillside town in Tuscany. It had a pristine, red-brick-tiled, symmetrical main square that offered a lovely setting for my heroine, Bella, to run to her vampire swain, Edward, through a crowd of red-robed celebrants. But the set of The Twilight Saga: New Moon was perhaps the least likely place to get the go-ahead on A Better Life, a story about an illegal immigrant and his son in East Los Angeles. But that's where Patrick Wachsberger, co-chairman of Summit and guardian of the Twilight franchise coffers, told me he wanted to make it. I think I said something like: "Are you sure, patron?" And, whether it was the wine, the sun, or Montelpulciano, he nodded yes.
It would...
- 7/28/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
All My Children was honored on Friday at the 9th Annual Humanitarian Awards from the Peace Over Violence organization. The show was given the "Media Award" at the ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Agnes Nixon spoke at the event as did Calista Flockhart (the organizations National Spokesperson), Rosario Dawson, Bo Derek and Maria Conchita-Alonso.
The last time the "Media Award" was given out was in 2007 to Amy Berg for Deliver Us From Evil.
The other honorees were Wendy Greuel (Los Angeles City Controller), the Southern California Gas Company, Father Greg Boyle (S.J., Executive Director, Homeboy Industries) and Cheryl Burke.
Agnes Nixon spoke at the event as did Calista Flockhart (the organizations National Spokesperson), Rosario Dawson, Bo Derek and Maria Conchita-Alonso.
The last time the "Media Award" was given out was in 2007 to Amy Berg for Deliver Us From Evil.
The other honorees were Wendy Greuel (Los Angeles City Controller), the Southern California Gas Company, Father Greg Boyle (S.J., Executive Director, Homeboy Industries) and Cheryl Burke.
- 10/31/2010
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
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